Many years ago, superhumans were viewed as monsters. Unacceptable to society, they were shunned and treated poorly by the regular human masses. All of that changed, however, in the 1940s. The view of heroes changed and the Golden Era was born. Heroes became celebrities, and corporations bought into the fad and created Brand Superhero. All roses have thorns, however, and the era of superheros came to an end in 2008. Beloved hero Eric Evers, aka Wonderman, was found dead in Times Square. The culprit? One of his friends and fellow heroes. No one trusted heroes anymore, and tensions became high. With the downfall of heroes, the superhero university, Vireximus, was under a watchful and scrutinizing eye. All the students and professors at the university can do now is wait and find their place in the new world of Broken Superheroes.

Post by DOLLAR on Nov 30, 2013 0:51:13 GMT -6

[attr="class","staffbod"]Lit up skies, caped figures in spotlights and dozens of world-famous aliases on the tip of every kid's tongue; once upon a time, superheroes were universally celebrated.

The world’s eyes were cemented on superheroes - televised and enrapturing billions - as they would face the world's most fearsome super villains, fight crime and supernatural disasters. Companies had invested in crimefighters and it paid off; they were celebrities in their own right, featured on the couches of talk shows, billboards of cities and protagonists in their own official comic books. There was a name for these glory days: the Golden Era of Superheroes and each year hundreds of students would apply to Vireximus University, an educational institute for nurturing the best and brightest of soon-to-be heroes.

It was an era that ended with the murder of one Eric Evers, superhero alias Wonderman, whose decapitated body was discovered impaled through an electronic billboard in Times Square on June 23rd, 2008. A man whose his superhuman invulnerability had been proved in global catastrophe after global catastrophe, whose superhuman strength was only matched by his superhuman popularity, was dead.

The death caused ripples of confusion, discontent and outrage across the world, heralding an entirely new challenge for superheroes and one they had not fought against for a long time: confusion and doubt. Soon the celebrity culture surrounding superheroes was haunted by the single question: Who Killed Eric Evers?

Cracks begun to appear in Brand Superhero, as further details escaped that threw superheroes under the public's scrutiny. Secret identities were leaked and further scandals started pouring through the cracks, massive cover-ups that had been deemed not worthy for public knowledge. Most notably came the discovery that many villains were totally, completely fake - just super-powered actors with big paychecks and even bigger fabricated identities, told to act diabolical for a camera to get people's eyes and ears on the TV. And not all heroes were aware of this; soon grew a divide grew between those who were unaware and felt betrayed and those who knew all along and kept quiet.

And when once upon a time Vireximus University had been a proud, idolised educational institute - the only one in the world considered allowed educate soon-to-be superheroes - pressure begun building for them to take some kind of stance on what was happening. Any stance. For now, with the university’s top staff keeping silent on matters and it’s up to the students, professors and faculty to find their place as superheroes in a world that questions these crimefighters' true purpose.

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